John Hurt Movie Updates

Ian McShane has boarded 'Hercules', the Dwayne Johnson-starring MGM-Paramount co-production based on a Radical Studios graphic novel.

The Weinstein Co. has acquired rights to Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming post-apocalyptic action thriller Snowpiercer in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

It appears acclaimed indie film director Jim Jarmusch is about to roll cameras in Detroit, where he’ll be shooting some scenes for his new vampire movie, Only Lovers Left Alive.

Billy Bob Thornton has set Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick and Ray Stevenson to star with Thornton in Jayne Mansfield's Car, the first dramatic feature that Thornton has directed since 2001's Daddy and Them.

Lars von Trier has completed casting on his new disaster movie "Melancholia," adding John Hurt to a cast that includes Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who won the best actress prize in Cannes last year with von Trier's shocker "Antichrist."